Once thought to be individual sinkholes, they discovered that the cenotes are actually a complex system of caves and ...

We’re parked up in our Land Cruiser on the golden grasslands of Botswana’s Mababe Depression, surrounded by Cape buffaloes ...

A convict settlement in a past life, Maria Island is now a sanctuary for endangered species. Ross Gurden heads there in ...

Endling’, perhaps the saddest word you have never heard of. This is the term used to describe the very last member of a ...

Some animals have claws, some have antlers and some razor-sharp teeth. But a few weapons are decidedly weirder than ...

Known for its remarkable and elaborate courtship dance in early spring and the beautiful crest of feathers around its head, ...

From explosive sea cucumbers to beetles that spray boiling toxic fluid from their bums, the world of wildlife is full of ...

Powerful punches. Flesh-tearing teeth. Deadly talons. We explore the best (or is it the worst?) weapons in the natural world.

But the closest these islands have to real dragons are the far more endearing great crested newts, which are most dragonesque in spring when the males develop fiery orange bellies and jagged crests ...

Researchers have discovered that microplastics are raining down onto forests – embedding them within the ecosystem ...

Here, ‘weirdness’ abounds. The platypus, for example, seemingly has the beak of a duck, the body of an otter, and the tail of a beaver. It lays leathery eggs like a reptile, yet feeds milk to its ...

Some animals have been observed to kill prey but not eat it – which is known as surplus killing. Meet the creatures that take ...